FW: article by Michael Berry

["Daniel Lozier" <lozier@nist.gov>]

Sender: Tom Koornwinder <thk@science.uva.nl>
Subject: article by Michael Berry


Someone put in my mailbox a copy of the article

Michael Berry,
Why are special functions special?,
Physics Today 54 (2001), no.4, 11-12.

It is also on the web:

http://physicstoday.org/pt/vol-54/iss-4/p11.html

I can recommend it very much. Michael tells physicists about the
importance
of special functions for physics, and he is promoting the DLMF-project
(successor of Amramowitz and Stegun).

		Tom Koornwinder
		thk@science.uva.nl